Living on a Narrowboat
Ostrog Monastery
Ostrog Monastery
KML: lat – 42.67462 lon – 19.03027
Seems that the mechanic of the monks has been at work here and forgot to remove the spare wheel he’s removed from the priests car.
Right in the middle of my photograph as well.
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Perhaps this wheel is a special wheel.
If children were to play with this wheel, I wonder what would happen to them in later life?
Would they grow up normally? Would the curse of the wheel and their childish folly come to haunt them in later life?
Ostrog Monastery
Ostrog Monastery
KML: lat – 42.66820 lon – 19.03135
The Monastery at Ostrog is set in the mountainside. Built around original sacred caves where miraculous happenings took place in the 17th century.
The Ostrog monastery is a shrine and pilgrimage for many in the orthodox faith.
St. Andrews Church
Located in a church down the hill is a shrivelled, severed hand in a glass case.
The orthodox priest invites me to kiss the case and offer some money.
No
The priest tells me a story of how the hand was chopped off a peasant boy for stealing, gesticulating toward the fresco on’t wall above.
I note to him that the swordsmen in the fresco look like they’re Turks “how the boy was special if the Turks came to Montenegro and killed hundreds of other civilians?”
This kind of draws a blank. I end up skipping the hand kissing and he gives me and orthodox playing card for free.
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There are many of these playing cards to collect. Like trumps or football cards, you can compare with your friends, swap or see which ones are best over a beer or coffee.
Here’s a my favourite Orthodox trump card. If anyone wants to exchange you know how to contact me.
Historical capital of Montenegro. Surrounded by basalt mountains more like a Swiss chalet town than a national capital. I had to drive though twice before satisfying myself it was actually the capital.
Yes there are large holes in the ground, some of the roads are not made up and there are large piles of logs in the street, but this town did once used to be the national capital of Montenegro.
There are a few attractions in the town, like the national museum. And some of the women are good looking.
Cetinje Montenegro
Cetinje MonasteryAgain, the orthodox. People are invited to prostrate themselves at glass boxes.
Each box houses a different worthy god. Kissing is obligatory.
Candles are lit.
There is also a shop selling honey, postcards and different touristic nic-nacs.
Some parts of the monastery are out of bounds.
Museum CetinjeLocated in the centre of town, this grand old museum documents the chronology of Montenegro from the Romans up until the end of the soviet era.
It makes an interesting series of exhibitions, marked most notable by a wall of portraits of wartime veterans.
There are some interesting weapons here which I have not seen elsewhere.
The exhibition is €3.
St. Andrews Church
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